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If you're on the fence about participating in #WritingMonth, please read my recap/debrief from last year:

rldane.space/nanowrimo-debrief…

(You couldn't possibly be more n00b than I was!)

Also, no, I'm not talking about nanowrimo πŸ˜„




Today in β€œWhen The Going Gets Weird,” the Stanford Prison Experiment was faked, and no one knows why it’s called a monkey wrench newsletter.mathewingram.com/th…


An Okta login bug bypassed checking passwords on some long usernames

The vulnerability is fixed now, but Okta said that for three months it could’ve been used to access accounts with usernames stretching at least 52 characters long.



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the admin team of the unofficial #Signal Wiki is proud to announce the 25 by 2025 project!

we're doing a collective call-to-action to get the 25 most wanted articles published by the year 2025!
so if you want to help the Signal community - and get some recognition in return - hop on to the project page and start contributing!

signal.miraheze.org/wiki/Signa…

#FOSS #OpenSource #e2ee #wiki



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With adequate preparation, a wizard can conjure an enchanted mechanism on the most ephemeral battlefield. #Linux #OpenSource cromwell-intl.com/open-source/…


I was involved with the first measurement of the top+W boson production at the LHC by CMS, and seeing these results now in #CMSPaper 1342 as precision measurements that study the behaviour of the two particles in detail is truly impressive! Also very important to test QCD and check for deviations to the precision predictions of the Standard Model, btw 😍 buff.ly/3XOOWbP


"'This equipment is supposed to save your life,' David Burchell, who has type 1 diabetes, told the BBC. 'And basically it broke, just showing a white screen, and I had a panic.'" Read the full article on the importance of software freedom in medical devices: u.fsf.org/448



"Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon early Thursday morning, according to UNIFIL, the mission operating along the Security Council-mandated β€œBlue Line” of separation between the two countries which they patrol."

news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1…

#Israel #IDF #UN #Lebanon #UNIFIL #UNSecurityCouncil

in reply to Strypey

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I condemn all attacks on civilians, civilians targets, aid workers and UN personnel. Regardless of which of the many groups of armed religious fascists in the region was responsible for them.

But it's pretty clear to me that

a) the IDF pose a much more serious threat, to all four, than any of the Islamist militias

b) The violence of any one group, against any of the four, is no excuse for another group to do more of the same.

As the old saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right.

in reply to Strypey

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The article you link to says;

"UNIFIL said earlier this month it had come under several 'deliberate' attacks by Israeli forces and efforts to help civilians in villages in the war zone were being hampered by Israeli shelling."

Yet the best you can offer as a covering excuse for these multiple confirmed IDF attacks on UN Peacekeepers is to handwave at a rocket attack that UNFIL thinks was ...

"... likely by Hizbullah or an affiliated group ..."

... although this is unconfirmed.




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BREAKING: Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid apnews.com/article/breonna-tay…
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